Apricot Sesame Crock Pot Chicken Wings
Whisk a few ingredients together, place in the crock pot and voila! Four hours later you have a healthy and delicious appetizer. Instructions for regular crock pot and multicooker.
Servings 8 servings
Ingredients
- 3 pounds chicken wings
- 2 medium shallot, peeled and minced
- 4 tablespoons toasted Sesame oil
- 1 teaspoon each sea salt and ground pepper
- 1 cup teriyaki sauce
- 6 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
- ¾ cups apricot preserves
- ½ cup freshly squeezed orange juice
- ½ teaspoon dried ground ginger
- 1 - 2 teaspoons red pepper flakes 1 tsp for mild, 1 1/2 for med, 2 for hot
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds, for garnish
- 3 green onions sliced, for garnish
- 2 tablespoons water
- 2 tablespoons corn starch or arrow root powder to thicken)
Instructions
- Whisk together shallots, sesame oil, salt, pepper, teriyaki, garlic, apricot preserves, orange juice, red pepper flakes and ginger.
- Place chicken wings in crock pot, meaty side down. Pour sauce over chicken wings.
- If you have a regular crock pot, cook on low heat 2 hours. Whisk together water with corn starch (or arrow root powder) and add to crock pot. Stir. Turn crock pot to 'high' and cook for one more hour.
- If you have a crock pot like mine that has a sauté/browning feature you can cook for 3 1/2 hours on low, add corn starch mixture and press brown/sauté, adjust the temperature 425. Cook for 15 more minutes till sauce is thick.
- Garnish with sesame seeds and green onions and serve!